A project like Miko Marks’ thunderous EP Race Records would have been the high-water mark of most any artist’s year. But for Marks, it’s just one tile in a mosaic of recent greatness that includes a single with fellow Californian […]
A project like Miko Marks’ thunderous EP Race Records would have been the high-water mark of most any artist’s year. But for Marks, it’s just one tile in a mosaic of recent greatness that includes a single with fellow Californian […]
When you know, you know. In a genre that places so much emphasis on authenticity — and all the fraught debates that brings — when you hear Riddy Arman’s life-weary voice, you know she’s the real deal. You don’t even […]
BettySoo is a classically trained honky-tonk legend, a musician’s musician in Austin. Grace Pettis is an acclaimed singer-songwriter who recently released the formidable album Working Woman, and Rebecca Loebe is a Berklee-trained contestant on The Voice. All three women have […]
Don’t be fooled by the folksiness early on in John R. Miller’s Depreciated. The album casually saunters towards a full existential breakdown that’ll leave you gasping for air. A native of the Shenandoah Valley, Miller channels nearly every strain of […]
Anna Tivel’s new album, Blue World, is instantly … different. The first notes on the album are a discordant chord (created, according to Tivel’s liner notes, by striking a screwdriver against a piano key). Tivel, winner of No Depression’s Singer-Songwriter […]
Dana Sipos’ The Astral Plane is a mesmerizing jewel of an album, an opal with ever-shifting facets, no matter which way you turn it. If one had to classify the album, folk would probably do, but in reality Sipos and […]
What a year to meditate on feeling like you’re on the outside of things! With her buttery voice, K.C. Jones takes a break from her band Feufollet’s Cajun French music to deliver a powerful album about life on the fringes: […]
Those first few shimmering notes on Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose’s album Spark in Your Smile are an invitation: Soon, you’ll find yourself in a musical universe that ebbs, flows, and gently rocks with undulating rhythms that can at times soften the blow […]
If you want something done right, you go to the experts. So if you want some vintage honky-tonk, you go to The Shootouts. Lead singer Ryan Humbert lives Americana music, even going so far as creating a 24-hour streaming radio […]
At 78 years old, Elizabeth King is releasing her debut full-length album. Living in the Last Days connects the past and future of Memphis’ “sacred soul” scene. King fronted Elizabeth King and the Gospel Souls in the 1970s, one of […]
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